[R-SIG-Mac] Trouble installing BMA package

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Michael Mason wrote:

> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I am unable to install BMA (not BaM).  am using the MAC OS Lion with R version is R2.13. I am using a Washington state mirror ( 82: USA (WA 1) )
> I have also tried:
> 83: USA (WA 2)
> 70: USA (CA 1)
> 29: Germany (Berlin)
> without any success.
> 

Please use the CRAN master site (cran.r-project.org) to avoid mirror issues. Alternatively you can use the canonical Mac binary source site which is http://r.research.att.com

Cheers,
Simon


> What is interesting to me is that nothing is downloaded when I call install.packages for BMA. Other packages install without a problem. Also, when I try to download the binary or source using a web browser nothing happens and the page just stalls. Below is the call and the error returned.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Mike
> 
> 
> install.packages("BMA")
> trying URL 'http://cran.cs.wwu.edu/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.13/BMA_3.14.1.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 196762 bytes (192 Kb)
> opened URL
> 
> downloaded 0 bytes
> 
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
> /var/folders/0h/tcngk0rn1rvdlg4b68f5ds6c0000gn/T//RtmpN7Imzi/downloaded_packages
> Warning messages:
> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
> downloaded length 0 != reported length 196762
> 2: In file.rename(file.path(tmpDir, pkgname), instPath) :
> cannot rename file '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/file6f1e72d/BMA' to '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/BMA', reason 'No such file or directory'
> 3: unable to move temporary installation '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/file6f1e72d/BMA' to '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/BMA'
> 
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